Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Summary

Join Mind Foundry's rapidly growing Engineering team as a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer and contribute to creating responsible AI solutions. Work remotely (UK) or in the office, collaborating with talented engineers, scientists, and designers to develop cutting-edge AI/ML solutions for diverse projects. You will take ideas from concept to production, creating scalable and secure systems. The role involves close collaboration with users, prototyping, and designing features for both on-premise and cloud environments. You'll need at least five years of commercial software engineering experience and expertise in at least one high-level programming language. This position offers the opportunity to grow, learn, and contribute to solving significant global challenges.

Requirements

• Have at least five years of commercial software engineering experience
• Be an expert in at least one high-level programming language
• Be familiar with a range of programming languages (primarily Python and JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Have experience working in an iterative Agile environment
• Have a strong understanding of the DevOps movement, its tools and its culture
• Have experience architecting and designing complex distributed software systems for both cloud and on-premise environments
• Have skills in areas such as systems integration, scripting, CI/CD, UI/UX, design, and databases

Responsibilities

• Help realize a future where Humans and AI work together to solve the world’s most important problems
• Take ideas from concept to production, creating elegant and maintainable solutions to complex, data-centric problems
• Be at the heart of the engineering effort that delivers cutting-edge AI/ML solutions across diverse projects, from signal processing and geospatial data modelling to image processing and high-fidelity simulations of physical systems
• Collaborate closely with users on new features, rapidly prototyping, exploring and validating ideas, and designing and developing features for scalable, secure, and observable systems, both on-premise and in the cloud
• Tackle practical, hands-on challenges, whether that means navigating unexpected technical roadblocks, finding creative workarounds under time pressure, or diving into unfamiliar tools and processes to get things working
• Be based at partner locations in the UK and Europe for the duration of some projects
• Apply for and obtain UK Security Check (SC) clearance or hold an existing clearance
• Drive improvements to how software is delivered
• Mentor and develop less experienced staff
• Architect and design complex distributed software systems for both cloud and on-premise environments
• Understand different architectural patterns and when to use them
• Design secure and scalable systems
• Work closely with users, understanding their needs and determining what to build and why
• Work with clients and represent technical expertise in discussions with other experts
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies
• Lead and mentor in your area of expertise
• Communicate ideas clearly to audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience in more than one of the core technology stack (PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Python Machine Learning)
• Have an understanding of Machine Learning, AI, or Data Science, including experience deploying ML in production or commercial applications
• Have equivalent experience in different technology stacks and transferable skills
• Have familiarity with other technologies in our stack like protobuf/grpc, Flask, Redux, AWS
• Have experience with modern numeric or big data frameworks, such as Sklearn, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark, Numba, Kafka, Apache Arrow, Parquet
• Have experience with Kubeflow or other MLOps technologies
• Have experience integrating with software APIs and skills like networking configuration
• Have experience in user interface design and implementation, especially with React and Node.js